a popular exchange where Bitcoins can be traded for more than a dozen national currencies including the US Dollar and the Euro.
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How can I buy Bitcoin via a Credit Card or Paypal?
I want to buy some bitcoins. Ideally, I would like to buy them on the MtGox exchange (because the consensus seems to be that this is the most reputable exchange), however I have found the system for ...
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What function does Mt. Gox's “Open Transaction” withdrawal option perform?
When withdrawing bitcoins from Mt. Gox, there is an option with a checkbox next to it titled "Open Transaction (6 confirmations)".
What does this do to my withdrawal?
I'm thinking this is probably a ...
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Why is MtGox trying to trademark “Bitcoin”?
Someone on the #mtgox IRC channel pointed me to this. It seems to be an application by Tibanne Co. Ltd. for the Trademark name BITCOIN.
I asked MagicalTux on #mtgox about it, but got no answer.
Why ...
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Is there a historical timeseries of market depth & transactions available?
Has anyone stored the historical market depth & tick data from MtGox? Is it available publically? Would be useful if you were making a bot.
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Were all funds stolen from Mt. Gox finally returned to all users?
Mt. Gox was hacked in June 2011, and some funds were stolen. There was a long winded account reclaim process.
At the end of this process, were all funds really returned to the satisfaction of all ...
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Why can't Dwolla send to Mt Gox?
I received the following after trying to make a USD deposit to Mt. Gox from Dwolla today. Does anyone know more information about this or if the court order may apply to other methods of ...
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MtGox - trusted vs verified
What is the difference between a "trusted", "verified" and other accounts at MtGox? In order to get "verified", one needs to provide them with photo ID and utility bill, but how does one get ...
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What happened with MtGox on 2011/9/12?
On that date, some erratic out-of-spread trades appeared on MtGox.
The explanation given says that accounts may have been compromised by the CosbyCoin attack on bitcointalk.org. I do not understand ...
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Why do both Mt. Gox and Intersango use Polish banks?
Since their previous France and UK accounts were closed, both Mt. Gox and Intersango set up accounts in Poland.
Is there a specific reason why they chose Poland?
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Is there a bitcoin exchange accepting a wire transfer within EU?
Since mt.gox had to close its european office, is there any other exchange accepting a wire transfer within Europe?
Sending a wire to the HK office costs 7€ instead of 1€ to me, and I'd like to avoid ...
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Pros and cons of using Mt. Gox as an e-wallet
Mt. Gox obviously allows you to send bitcoins to it, and to receive them to an address of your choice; hence I'm wondering if there is any reason not to use it as an e-wallet.
Unless I'm mistaken, ...
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Is there a “MtGox Live” alternative which supports Euro?
MtGox Live is a quite pretty live market depth graph.
For some reason it only shows prices in USD.
Does anyone know an equally good alternative which supports EUR instead?
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Which exchanges are Tor-friendly?
Mt. Gox's sign-up page states:
Please be advised that accessing your account via the Tor network
and/or public proxies may result in a temporary suspension of your
account, and having to ...
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Need authoritative source for historic Bitcoin conversion prices from all Exchanges
What are the authoritative sources for historic Bitcoin prices?
Ideally this will be an API of sorts, or a list of links that I can "screen scrape" to be able to collect the information.
I found ...
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How are MtGox options going to affect Bitcoin price volatility?
MtGox plans to introduce Options, would Bitcoin price become more stable or it would just hedge risks?
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Pricing TradeHill compared to MTGox
I've just launched a trading app that trades on MTGox and TradeHill.
I'm noticing something strange on TradeHill though. Basically I get my quote and place an order directly after. The order never ...
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How do I withdraw USD from Mt. Gox through SEPA?
Can Mt. Gox convert USD to EUR or do I have to convert it through Bitcoin myself?
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Easiest way to convert bitcoins to usd
For someone in the USA what is the easiest way to convert bitcoins to usd while incurring minimal fees. I've heard of using mtgox with dwolla, or mtgox with internation wire transfer. But it strikes ...
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Why does Mt Gox disallow YubiKeys purchased direct from Yubikey.com?
I have several Yubikeys and would like to use one or more with MtGox.... however it seems that I can only use keys purchased from Mt Gox on their site.
Why did Mt Gox choose to implement security ...
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View market depth/ orders on mtgox?
Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but does mtgox have an option to see market depth? The trading page allows me to set a price, but without know the current levels of bid/asks how can I make a ...
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How do MtGox redeemable codes work?
At MtGox (and presumably some other sites), you can withdraw money in the form of a redeemable code. These codes are also accepted for deposit at some Bitcoin exchanges.
How does this work? ...
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Transaction Records of MtGox?
When transactions are done on MtGox.com, MtGox Live will reflect the transactions by showing "popups" (top-right corner).
Does MtGox provide a "history record of transactions" which show us ...
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What is the reputation of bitfloor?
It seems that bitfloor is a well designed trading platform, and a competitor to MtGox. However, the trading volume is low.
How long has bitfloor been in business?
Have there been any negative ...
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Has anyone tried transfering 0.00000001 BTC (the currently minimum amount) successfully?
I did an experiment of withdrawing 0.00000001 BTC from MtGox. And this transaction still cannot be seen on http://blockexplorer.com/ after about an hour.
Concern solved, thank you everybody!
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How did Bitcoinica get its prices?
I'm interested in building a Bitcoinica replacement and wondered how did they get their pricing information.
Was it from Mt.Gox and was it verifiable, I mean could you have gone to a web site and ...
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What is the best way to exchange MTGUSD to USD?
Are there any better ways to exchange MTGUSD to real USD with lowest fees and the shortest time?
I had mining some bitcoins and exchange them to MTGUSD at Mt.Gox. But how do I actually use the USD in ...
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How is “engine lag” on Mt Gox calculated?
When looking at external API-driven charts of Mt Gox trades, there is a "Trading engine lag" shown, which shows the backlog of orders queued and waiting-to-be-executed, relative to the present time:
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Bitcoin price drop in the past few days (25/10/12 to 27/10/12)
Does anyone have any solid ideas or knowledge on why the price has dropped so much over the past few days? There is a lot of speculation, but nothing I have read to date seems to adequately explain ...
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When does MtGox “volume” get reset?
What time of day (in GMT) does the volume get reset to zero?
I'm trying to correlate this with the charts, however I'm unclear as to when this actually would occur
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To use Dwolla with Mt. Gox I need to become Verified. Do I need Apostille?
Mt. Gox now requires at least Level 1 Verified in order to deposit or withdraw Dwolla funds.
Level 1 says Government Photo ID + utility bill
http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox#AML
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When MtGox was hacked on 15th June 2011, how many bitcoins were actually stolen?
When MtGox was hacked on 15th June 2011, how many bitcoins were stolen?
I remember at the time that news articles reporting the incident talked about the size of the sell order the hacker placed ...
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When/How did Eligius “indirectly cost MTGOX many thousands of bitcoins”?
From the forum:
Eligius already will accept any transaction, "standard" or not,
without bias.
...
Indeed, and Eligius' willingness to do so indirectly cost MTGOX many
thousands of ...
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Is there a limit for bitcoin withdrawal at Mt.Gox?
Their page states (https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20490576-Withdrawals-and-Deposits):
All methods below are subject to a withdrawal limit of 1000 USD per 24hr period and 10000 USD per 30 Day ...
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Can the sender of a MtGox code see which account the code is redeemed to?
In other words, if I receive a MtGox code and redeem it to my account, can the person who gave me the bitcoins, via the code, see that my account was the account that redeemed it?
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What is the difference between a market and limit property in the MTGox API?
I'm using the MTGox API to get data about historic trades.
When I run https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCGBP/public/trades?since={trade_id}, I get the latest 500 trades since that {trade_id}.
Now I have for ...
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What is the story behind MtGox and their French bank?
MtGox has their French bank account closed last year, as the bank stated they aren't legally allowed to undertake the activities they were doing in regards to trading Bitcoins. There have been a few ...
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How do I transfer funds from India to an exchange?
I want to buy a few Bitcoins using my bank account/ credit card from here in India. How do I do that? MtGox has an option to do wire transfer. Is it the only way to do it? If I transfer $1000, how ...
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I'm in the UK, how to fund my account at mtgox?
It is getting ridiculously hard to get bitcoins in the U.K. International wires are to expensive, my bank doesn't support SEPA. I'm seriously thinking about converting ukash vouchers to cash u ...
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When BTC is traded at a Mt Gox (or similar) what is the algorithm for matching Buys to Sells? How do partial fills occur?
I'm trying to understand how a partial fill would / should happen at an exchange and how that would occur
For example, if the BTC rate was $10/BTC and
Someone wanted to buy 100 BTC at $10
The ...
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Does Mt. Gox's “Redeem a wallet.dat” feature require an unencrypted wallet?
Just added to Mt. Gox's API documentation is the ability to Redeem a wallet.dat, which allows a simple way to import (via upload of wallet.dat) all your private keys to be managed by Mt. Gox.
All ...
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What is the refresh interval of MtGox ticker API?
I'm using the MtGox ticker API (from MtGox API V2) and I want to know the update interval. I think it is less than 3 minutes, but is it possible to know exactly? It is important to me because I'm ...
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Does MtGox charge commission in USD or in BTC?
When we buy BTC using USD on MtGox,
Does MtGox charge 0.6% of the USD then do a trade, or does MtGox do a trade first, then charge 0.6% of the BTC we receive?
Similarly, when we sell BTC for USD on ...
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Around EUR 40 to withdraw from MtGox?
I just withdrew around EUR 940 from my MtGox account and transferred it to an account in a European bank that does not charge anything for incoming international transfers.
MtGox charged me a bit ...
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Backing up bitcoins on Mt.Gox
I have some bitcoins on Mt.Gox. Against the possibility that a nuclear holocaust or some sort of hanky-panky or the like were to wipe out Mt.Gox tomorrow morning, how should I back those up?
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What is the smallest possible size of a bid/ask on Mt.Gox?
I've successfully done .01 of a bitcoin for both bid and ask, but I'm wondering if someone knows the real limit?
I cant seem to find it in their documentation.
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Could there be a “run” on Mt Gox? Does Mt Gox use my balance for other purposes behind the scenes?
It's conceivable that Mt Gox would re-use the outstanding balances (USD or otherwise) in other investments (BTC or otherwise).
How much liquidity does Mt Gox have in BTC and Fiat dollars in case a ...
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MtGox-Api License
I want to use the data of the MtGox-API for my (commercial) website. I want to show their data as an exchange-rate, but, of course, I will link to their site and cite them as source. I couldn't find ...
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Why can't I withdraw any BTC from MtGox? [closed]
I have a balance of just 4 BTC at Mt Gox and when I try to withdraw them I get this message: Your account is currently pending review, please visit https://mtgox.com/forms/verification
What am I ...
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Is the mtgoxlive depth chart information accurate?
Mt. Gox publishes live data which is available at mtgoxlive.com. The chart includes the current market price as well as a depth chart of existing bid and ask prices, which I assume is compiled from ...
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Why does my client not show funds that were sent to me?
Quick question regarding a transaction that I am having an issue with, about a week ago I bought some BTC with MtGox, however when I withdrew the BTC I opted not to pay the fee. One week later I am ...
